

README file for �The Effects of Combating Corruption on Institutional Trust and Political Engagement: Evidence from Latin America�Authors: Mathias Poertner and Nan Zhang

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All data analyses in R were carried out using R (version 4.1.2) for Mac (Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)) run on macOS Monterey (12.6); all data analyses in Stata were carried out using Stata v.17.
------------------List of files------------------1 - Datasets------------------(a) Latinobarometro2009Eng.dta	Dataset with the survey responses collected during the 2009 wave of the Latinobar�metro survey (English version). The dataset was downloaded from Corporaci�n Latinobar�metro: Latinobar�metro. Santiago de Chile: Corporaci�n Latinobar�metro. (www.latinobarometro.org).
(b) Latinobarometro2013Eng.dta	Dataset with the survey responses collected during the 2013 wave of the Latinobar�metro survey (English version). The dataset was downloaded from Corporaci�n Latinobar�metro: Latinobar�metro. Santiago de Chile: Corporaci�n Latinobar�metro. (www.latinobarometro.org).	

(c) googletrends_Menem.csv
	Dataset from Google Trends on the relative frequency of Google searches for �Menem" originating from Argentina in June 2013. 

(d) googletrends_Calderon.csv
	Dataset from Google Trends on the relative frequency of Google searches for �Calderon" originating from Costa Rica in October 2009. 

2 - R code----------------(a) Argentina.R	Reproduction code for all tables and figures with results for the Argentina study reported in main body of the manuscript and the online appendix.

(b) CostaRica.R	Reproduction code for all tables and figures with results for the Costa Rica study reported in main body of the manuscript and the online appendix.


3 - Stata Code
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(a) GoogleTrendsGraphs.do
	Reproduction code for Figures 1 and 5 in the main text showing the relative frequency of Google searches.
4 - Other files----------------(a) DataAnalysis_Argentina.pdf	Report with R code and output for the Argentina analyses.(b) DataAnalysis_CostaRica.pdf	Report with R code and output for the Costa Rica analyses.